Mario Berberan-Santos graduated in Chemical
Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Technical
University of Lisbon) in 1984. After a brief stay at the
National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa) with A. Szabo, he
received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from IST (M. Prieto) in 1989.
He was a post-doctoral Fellow with B. Valeur at Conservatoire
National des Arts et Métiers (Paris, France), and at Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du
Rayonnement Electromagnétique (LURE, Univ.
Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) in 1990-91. In 1997 he
completed his Habilitation (Agregação) in Chemistry at IST. He
was Invited Full Professor at the École Normale
Supérieure de Cachan (France) in 1998, 2002 and 2005. He
was Secretary-General of the Portuguese Chemical Society (Sociedade Portuguesa
de Química) in 2001-2004. He is (since 2003) member of the
Permanent
Steering Committee of the MAF Conferences.He was elected Fellow
of the Royal Society of Chemistry
in 2004, and member of the International Academy of
Mathematical Chemistry in 2012. Prize "Estímulo à Excelência" (Fundação para a
Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal) in 2006-07. Member
of the Editorial Advisory Boards of ChemPhysChem
(2004-2014) and of

Mario Berberan-Santos has carried out
theoretical and experimental work on the structure of nano
and supramolecular systems, on the photophysics of
molecular probes, fluorescence polarization, radiative
and nonradiative (FRET) electronic energy transfer and
transport, on the kinetics of diffusion-influenced
processes, and on the photophysics of fullerenes
and derivatives. Current interests include the
luminescence of fullerenes and related nanostructured
systems, as well as luminescence relaxation
and other kinetic processes, including
applications such as sensing and lighting.
He is currently the scientific coordinator of research
projects «New isotope effects in fluorescence and
phosphorescence» (FCT, 2012-2015) and «Multifunctional
nanomaterials for fluorescence imaging and sensing» (FCT,
2013-2016, with J.M.G. Martinho and J.S. Cabral), and the
responsible for IST's participation in the EU project SAFUEL (FP7,
2012-2015).

Selected
publications

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Books

166. Probabilistic view of the luminescence phasor plot
and description of the universal semicircle as the sum of two
spiraling curves, M. N.
Berberan-Santos,Journal
of Mathematical Chemistry53 (2015) 1207.

156.
Temperature dependence of the phosphorescence and of the
thermally activated delayed fluorescence of 12C70
and 13C70 in amorphous polymer
matrices. Is a second triplet involved?, T. Palmeira, A.
Fedorov, M. N. Berberan-Santos, Methods and
Applications in Fluorescence2 (2014) 035002.